Hello guys, this is my first post here! I just got a MIG Switch card out of curiosity and I was tinkering with it. For those who don't know, it's used by placing XCI dumps as well as other game specific bin files in the sd card of the MIG Switch, and are obtained from the original cartridge by using an app like nxdumptool. Two of these bin files are mandatory to get the game to boot: Initial Data.bin and Certificate.bin. They stay the same for every cartridge of a specific game. Now, if you want to use an XCI dump from a shady website it's impossible to get it to work without those files. By using the Certificate.bin from another game it has no problem, but this does not count for the Initial Data.bin. So I looked for a way to obtain this Initial Data from an XCI file and read a bit of the XCI file documentation from switchbrew dot org. Here's what I understood so far: The Switch checks if the cartridge is valid by doing a challenge–response authentication on the Initial Data. The Package ID is contained both on the XCI and the Initial Data, on positions 0x110 and 0x0 respectively. The Initial Data hash is on the XCI at position 0x160. It is calculated by doing a SHA-256 hash on the full Initial Data content. So I was wondering, is there a way to to construct a functional Initial Data file starting from an XCI dump? I also tried a reverse approach by editing the Package ID in the Initial Data from another game, generating the Initial Data hash and putting it in the XCI file but is not enough to get the Switch believe it's a real game. Sorry if this may seem stupid but let me know what you think.

mig switch not working/updating??

stickybit · 2024-03-28T19:59:51+00:00

just got my mig switch and followed instructions to the T to update it and all im getting is a red light and then a message saying cart not recognised, all im trying to do is update it to the latest firmware, it says it should flash blue when...

I found a 100% save file on here for both normal mode and master mode for breath of the wild.

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I found a 100% save file on here for both normal mode and master mode for breath of the wild. But it says for switch. I have got switch files to work on the wii u emulator before? But this version won't work. I even extracted the file and straight up copied all DLC data into the folder that was straight up extracted from the .zip and it still doesn't read the save file after I moved the save file to the correct folder. Is there any way to get this save file to read on the wii u emulator? It reads as if it was saved the year 1970 which is weird and all the save data is at the beginning of the game. Or at least that is the way I got it to read on cemu when I loaded it. I verified the data was 100% with the breath of the wild save editor but I still can't get the save data to load correctly on the wii u
emulator.

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ROM Hack I found a 100% save file on here for both normal mode and master mode for breath of the wild.

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